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atj@kylas.com (Anil John)

Scott,

In your message given below, you had spoken of building a simple sample to
demonstrate the concepts that you were speaking about... Did you ever get a
chance to do this?

I am definitely one of those who gain a better understanding after looking over
code samples... So any help along these lines would be appreciated.

Anil

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One way to store roles without having to rehit the database on each request
would be to utilize a client-side cookie to persist the roles. You could
then use the Application_AuthenticateRequest event to take this cookie and
instantiate an appropriate GenericPrincipal object with the role
information. If you wanted to be fancy, you could even using a sliding
window timeout on this role information -- causing you to automatically
invalidate and then repopulate the cookie with the database stored role
mappings after a specified period of time.

The thing you need to careful of, naturally, is to ensure that clients can't
maliciously manipulate the client-side cookie contents between round-trips.
You can do this in one of two ways:

1) Using the System.Security.Cyptography APIs to manually encrypt/decrypt
the cookie content

2) Utilize the built in "UserData" property exposed on the
CookieAuthenticationTicket class (which is in turn exposed off of the
CookieIdentity class which User.Identity is an instance of when forms based
authentication is enabled). The "UserData" property allows you to get/set a
string (in whatever format you want). The forms based authentication system
will then automatically encrypt/decrypt its value for you.

Note that the IBuySpy News application will demonstrate how to do the above
when we finish building it and post it onto www.IBuySpy.com. Give me a
shout if you have problems implementing the above solution in the meantime,
however, and I'll see if I can build a simple sample to demonstrate.

Hope this helps,

- Scott

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Chuck (VIP)

Scott,
I'd be interested in seeing anything that allows you to set the cookie
expiration or put something in the userdata area. I've put up half a dozen
posts on this and similar topics regarding cookie authentication and have
never gotten an answer (even on asngescalate).

At 06:02 PM 4/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
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